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This is confirmed by a look at some 50 of the other entries that will go on display next week at the American Institute of Architects headquarters in Washington. They illustrate our time's bewildering embrace of almost anything: from architectural stunts to sculptural theatrics, from the pompous to the ludicrous. from the innovative to the reactionary...
Morell is a pompous minister and a spellbinder in the pulpit. Marchbanks is a physical coward who baits people by ventilating their pretensions. His strength is a burning sense of vocation. Candida is an alluring marvel of self-control with wisdom flowing through every artery...
...MOMA for architecture, film, photography, and commercial and industrial design transformed the traditional structure and function of a museum. He wanted, he said, to "show New York the best of modern architecture, posters, chairs and movies, and attack the complacency with which our successful designers contemplated their modernistic skyscrapers, pompous super-films, banal billboards, and the cynical promotion of artificial obsolescence...
Lucy Ricardo was a scheming, deceitful, bubble-headed idiot. Ralph Cramden was a pompous, irrational, loudmouthed, overbearing jerk. Are these the examples Mr. Fore would set before his children as good marriage partners and role models...
...Maury, 81, soft-spoken lawyer-turned-journalist who wrote hard-hitting, influential editorials for the New York Daily News from 1926 to 1972, lecturing readers on the dangers of Communism and bad grammar, lampooning public figures and once describing U.N. headquarters as "a glass cigar box jam-packed with pompous do-gooders, nervy deadbeats, moochers, saboteurs, spies and traitors"; of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Schooled in controversy, Maury spent the early 1940s simultaneously turning out anti-interventionist, anti-F.D.R. tracts for the right-wing News and pro-interventionist, pro-F.D.R. views for the editorial page of liberal Collier...